The Jack O'Lantern Series #1: The Duke's Letter

Fourteen year old Jack Peckett only became ill a year ago when he began feeling a strange sensation in his fingertips. He heard his father talking on the phone one night, blaming that feeling for Jack's illness. No doctor could help Jack and Dr. Marone was barely able to help with the fevers anymore. It was when Jack used that feeling to shut down the lights in half the city that the pain came back, but it was much worse then all the other times. Jack felt like he was being ripped apart, he knew his death was upon him. Then a man named Benedict Delia busted through his bedroom doors. He wore a cloak that was clipped together in the middle of his chest with a carved pumpkin pin. When he pulled off his hood, he reminded Jack of a mad scientist, not someone who would be able save his life, but he did. However, it was an eye for an eye and Jack soon found himself taken from his family under the premise that Jack was going to help the cause. But what cause was this strange man even talking about? It wasn't until Jack met Alixandria Delia, Benedict's thirteen year old daughter, that he learned that there were others like him, others with the same feeling who were trapped under a law that made them hide in the shadows. But Jack doubted that he would even join them in the first place let alone be able to ever save them. He barely knew how to control the feeling he had, but it was a letter Jack found in the woods that guided his decision. A letter signed 'The Duke.'

**Cover Photo is by Joanna Karpowicz. He artwork can be found at this blog here, http://obrazkovo.wordpress.com.